The Texas Blind Salamander spends its entire life in complete darkness, far below the bustling world above. Unlike most animals, it never sees the sun, nor does it experience the changing seasons.

The Ugly Ducklings: Ten Lesser-Known Texas Endangered and At-Risk Species ... But while the Texas blind salamander gets most of the press, the Tooth Cave spider is just as threatened.

Texas Blind Salamander. TPWD said the Texas Blind Salamander lives in water-filled caves of the Edwards Aquifer near San Marcos. Its Central Texas habitat is found in Hays County.

In Edwards Aquifer country, as goes the blind salamander, so go we all. Skip to content. The Texas Observer. Since 1954. ... In continuing to protect Texas wild rice, the blind salamander, ...

Others are a blindcat named Trogloglanis pattersoni, the Texas blind salamander and the famous Blanco blind salamander. Gluesenkamp said he met Hendrickson while attending graduate school at UT.

Up to 300 live, endangered salamanders disappeared from a federal facility south of Austin over Thanksgiving, and authorities say they may have been stolen because of a potential black market ...

FWS plan to save 7 Texas species will take lots of time, money. By Michael Doyle | 09/11/2024 01:34 PM EDT . The endangered and threatened species all live in the Edwards Aquifer near San Antonio.

They include the likes of the Texas blind salamander, Peck’s cave amphipod and Comal Springs riffle beetle. The protected species inhabit the state’s two largest spring systems in Comal and ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Commission approved adding the federally endangered Austin blind salamander to the state's list of endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that two Texas species — the Blanco Blind Salamander once found in the Blanco River near San Marcos, and the Rio Grande Cooter found within the Rio ...

AUSTIN, Texas — We're no strangers to drought in Central Texas. In fact, words like "drought," "water conservation" and "water shortage" tend to lose their meaning after multiple years of below ...